The Hollywood Farmers Market has a 15-member volunteer board with a 3 year commitment. The board meets the third Wednesday of each month throughout the year. In addition to attending monthly meetings, board members participate in committees focused on marketing, long-term planning, staff, market site logistics and finances. You are welcome to attend a meeting to see for yourself how this part of your market functions. Please visit our volunteers page for details on how to become more involved.
2016 Board Members
Frank Battilega
Keith Bidwell
Keith Bidwell is really excited to begin his second year as a board member. He became involved with Hollywood Farmers market three years ago as a volunteer and has been in love with the market ever since. Keith believes that HFM is truly one of Portland’s most unique markets and appreciates that on any given weekend it has great variety and maintains a comfortable size for wandering. With a background in catering and cooking Keith has helped with a few of the markets many seasonal and interesting demos and hopes to help keep these going in the coming season. Outside of the market Keith works for the locally owned and operated company Soup Cycle which is in line with many of his goals in bringing people good, clean, healthy food while continuing the important work of reducing our carbon footprint.
Abigail Chipley (Secretary)
Abigail is a writer, recipe developer, and cooking teacher who has worked in the food industry for more than 15 years. Since moving to Portland from New York in 2006, she’s also been a loyal farmer’s market customer and local food advocate. In 2014, she started a series of cooking classes to help people use seasonal produce and become more confident home cooks. As a board member, she is excited to have the opportunity to get to know farmers and vendors better, and help the market bring fresh food to Portlanders from all walks of life. You will often meet her in the market, towing heavy bags, and weighing down her two kids with anything she can’t carry herself.
Erinn Criswell
After volunteering with the development committee in 2014, Erinn was elected to the board to begin her service in January of 2015. She looks forward to engaging with such a strong network of passionate folks, both shoppers and volunteers. Erinn has worked on farms in Hawaii, Florida, and Oregon. She celebrates the efforts of farmers to bring local food to local plates, and hoorays (yes hoorays) folks for buying directly from producers. Erinn spends her days working at Friends of Family Farmers, an advocacy group that supports socially and environmentally responsible family-scale agriculture in Oregon. She spends her free time in the mountains, on the river, exploring with her dog Spruce, and, of course, in the kitchen cooking up good food, preferably with good friends.
Claudia Fabbrini (Vice Chair)
Please welcome Claudia Fabbrini to her first year of board membership! With a background in management at Portland’s locally owned New Seasons Market Claudia is poised to be an enthusiastic and engaging member of the Hollywood Farmers Market team. Her love of fresh local food brought her to the market in the summer of 2014 as a volunteer and she quickly became so involved that she is not only a board member but went on to work for our vendor Persephone Farms. On market days you can often find her wandering around exploring her love of berries and cheese. Feel free to approach her with any food related questions, she love to talk about food and you are bound to have a lively conversation.
Kristine Falletta Abraldes (Treasurer)
Kristine can’t get enough of the bounty of Portland’s nearby farms. As an avid home cook and gardener, she finds the Farmers Market a perfect way to supplement a her vegetable-based lifestyle. In the summer, you’ll find her knee deep in vegetables in her kitchen or primping her front yard veggie garden. Kristine enjoys anything that brings her closer to her food’s roots (literally!)
Kristine is excited to contribute to Hollywood & Lloyd Farmers Market community. Upon joining the board in January 2016, she looks forward to engaging with the community, sharing a love of local food, and promoting sustainable practices. Kristine comes to the market with a background in managing sustainability programs involved with electric energy use, and is excited to merge her passion for sustainability with her love of nourishing food.
Michael Mason
Ava Mikolavich
Annie Moss
Annie Moss loves farmers markets almost as much as she loves cats and toast. She joined the HFM board in 2015; becoming part of this community immediately made Portland feel even more like home. Annie lived for several years in New York City, where she co-founded an urban farm, and helped Greenmarket initiate a farmland retention program as well as a regional grains project. When she moved back to her home state of Oregon in 2012, she figured it was only a matter of time before she re-submerged herself into local food and farming. She brings with her a passion for marketing (which she is surprised to admit) and a passion for local grains (which she talks about to anyone who will listen). Annie co-owns and operates Seastar Bakery, a new bakery in Northeast Portland that uses house-milled, local grains. She is excited to build more contacts among the farming community through the Hollywood Farmers Market, and to let their talent in coaxing delicious ingredients from the soil shape her menus.
Molly Notarianni
Molly was first introduced to the wonderful Hollywood Farmers Market community in 2005, while selling vegetables in the Winter Green Farm booth. It was love at first radish! For the past ten years she has worked to support sustainable food systems across the country, spending time as a farmer, an educator, a volunteer coordinator, and a manager of myriad farmers’ markets. These days, Molly works to support Oregon’s beginning farmers through her position at Friends of Family Farmers, and she is super excited to continue her involvement with the Hollywood Farmers Market by joining the Board! While Molly loves all farmers markets, HFM is a beautiful, magical place that really feels like home. When she’s not wrangling farmers, you may find Molly on an adventure outdoors, or perched in an urban pear tree, or cooking and eating with friends. She loves meeting her neighbors, sharing her backyard with chickens, and waking up to see that it has snowed.
Katy Pelissier (Chair)
Katy Pelissier was first introduced to the concept of locally-grown food in college, via the University of Oregon’s Urban Farm class, where she was thrilled to learn that she was living in a bountiful region, full of thoughtful, dedicated farmers and all sorts of good food. Katy loves both farmers’ markets and Community Supported Agriculture programs (CSAs), and especially loves the community that comes along with the Hollywood Farmers Market. Katy joined the market board in January of 2014, and looks forward to continuing to connect farmers and eaters through this work. Katy spends her days working for the Farm to School program at Ecotrust, where she helps school districts, preschools, and other big buyers serve more locally-grown food in their meals. In her spare time, Katy is usually on a bike, in a yoga studio, or (if she’s lucky) in a tent or on the Oregon coast.
Bruce Richard
Bruce spent several years working on a wide range of sustainability issues in the Bay Area. Realizing that Food is the New Black he focused his efforts on healthy, accessible food. He joined Abby’s Table to expand its mission to enrich the culinary tapestry of Portland and get connected to the local food industry in a more tangible way.
Farmers markets represent the nexus of so much that is good about our local food systems. As a participant in the food service industry, strong supporter of local agriculture, and the prime food preparer at home Bruce experienced firsthand the vibrant atmosphere of people coming together at the Hollywood Farmers Market on Saturday mornings. He is drawn to both HFM’s great shopping experience for families throughout the east side of Portland but also its key involvement in promoting healthy food for underserved populations who live right here in our community.
Bruce also spends time as a volunteer leader at Oregon Food Bank’s Learning Garden Program and Urban Forestry tree steward. At home he nurtures herbs and flowers on the sunny south side of his Laurelhurst home.
Ramona White